Best under-the-radar-but-still-toiling-away playwright

His two-to-four-person plays strip away masks to examine human character. Rueff had a moment in the sun in 1999, when one of his plays made it to the silver screen as “The Big Kahuna.” He even penned the screenplay for the well-received but little-seen Kevin Spacey film. But these days his plays are produced outside of the Windy City more often than in it.